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Top 5 Linux Apps That’ll Boost Your Productivity

These are not in any specific order. Also, some might be available on other operating systems. Tomboy This is the best note taking app I’ve ever used. It sits in your taskbar, doesn’t annoy you and doesn’t hog your cpu cycles or memory. When you wanna jot down something, hit a global shortcut, type away, [...]

Has vim/rails.vim been crashing lately? Here’s why.

If you are experiencing segmentation faults with vim and rails.vim, it may be due to this bug, which appeared after 1.7.127, but has been resolved in 1.7.147 (patch log). To check if your installation has this bug, type the following (cred goes to Ralph) in vim: :r ~fo<tab> (’fo’ being the start of a username [...]

Simple and Effective Productivity Tip When Working on the Computer

This falls under “Why Didn’t I Think of This Before?” Not being able to remain focused and get things done while working on a computer is common. There’s a countless number of things to do even offline. You can, and probably do: Organize folders/desktop/etc Finally get around to actually opening up an ebook you’ve downloaded [...]

How to Speed Up Fullscreen Flash Playback in Linux

Hardware acceleration is not available in fullscreen mode for Linux yet, at least not with Adobe’s Flash 9.x plugin. This isn’t much of a problem with small videos, but it results in choppy, sluggish playback in fullscreen mode. Fortunately, there’s a simple way around this while we wait for Adobe to address the issue. Workaround [...]

Mounting CUE/BIN/NRG/CCD (& other) Images on Linux Using CDemu

CDemu is basically a Daemon Tools alternative for Linux. It is a kernel module that lets you mount disk images to a virtual disk drive. It is capable of mounting TOC/CUE/BIN, NRG (Nero), CDI (DiskJuggler), CCD (CloneCD), MDS/MDF (Alcohol 120%), B6T (BlindWrite 6) and TOC images, and probably whatever else libMirage can handle. Installation isn’t [...]

Over 900 Awesome Tux Avatars – Free Download

While browsing the Intertubes looking for reasons to avoid doing meaningful work, I came across a file called Tux_Avatars.rar, which caught my attention primarily because it was big (>50 megs); “How many tux avatars can you have?” I philosophized. So I did what I always do when I come across files I know nothing about. [...]